Compcndium der neu beschriebenen Gattungen und Arten. 459 



138. Prinia brevicauda. 



W. V. Legge Eist. Birds Ceylon Pt. II Sept. 1879 p. 521, 

 Part. III Sept. 1880 App. p. 1216. 



Smaller browner race of P. socialis, with shorter tail. Length 

 4,5—5,0 inches; wing 1,75—1,9; tail 1,8—1,9; tarsus 0,75—0,85. 



Hab.: Ceylon. 



139. Reguloides Mandellii, 



E. Brooks, Stray Feath. Vol. VIII No. 2-5 Oct. 1879 

 p. 389. 



Top of bead dark olive brown, darker than that of erocliroa 

 and browner; there is a greenish coronal streak, very well marked. 

 as in erocliroa. The brown of the head is darkest, and almost 

 a blackish brown immediately above the supercilium and ends 

 abruptly at the nape of the neck, where it expands, a little, much 

 after the mode of the dark markings on the head of Reguloides 

 occipitalis. Back rieh olive green, brighter and paler on the 

 rump; wings and tail dark brown; primaries and secondaries 

 edged with bright olive green; tertials broadly edged with pale 

 greenish grey, this edging forming a regulär border to the feather, 

 and not an external drop or long oval spot on the outer edge 

 near tip, as in erochroa and maculipennis. In mode of edging 

 to tertials the new bird strongly resembles proregulus ; tail feathers 

 edged with light olive green; supercilium a warm dusky buff, 

 with sometimes a slight greenish tinge, and differing from the 

 dusky greenish one of erochroa-, cheeks dusky pale buff, mottled 

 with brown; a dark brown streak through the eye; lower parts 

 dusky albescent, much tinged with yellow; ridge of wing sulphur 

 yellow, and axillaries a somewhat paler yellow. 



Bill dark brown, with basal half of lower mandible dull 

 orange yellow, legs and feet pale yellow brown ^ the feet much 

 tinged with yellow; the second primary is generally about equal 

 to the ninth. Long. 4,25; wing 2,25; tail 1^72; tarsus 0,75; Bill 

 at front 0,33 inches. 



Hab.: Darjeeling and Shillong (India). 



140. Tricholais flavotorquata. 

 Hartlaub, P. Z. S. 1880 IV p. 624. 



Supra dilute olivacea, pileo et capitis lateribus cinereis; 

 subtus alba, pectore excepto citrino-flavo , abdomine canescente; 

 hypochondriis et subcaudalibus cinerascenti lavatis; remigibus et 

 rectricibus obsolete fuscis, bis, mediis exceptis, limbo apicali 

 albido flavidoque variis; rostro plumbeo - fuscescente , pedibus 

 carneis (S). Long. tot. circa 102 mill; rostri a fr. 10; alae 50; 

 caudae 37; tarsi 18. 



Hab.: Magungo, Central- Africa. 



Fam. SYLVICOLIDAE. 



141. Helminthophaga cincinnatiensis. 



F. W. Langdon, Journ. Cincinu. Soc. N. H. July 1880 

 p. 119 und Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club Vol. V 1880 No. 4 p. 208 pl. 4. 



